Pipe spotting

Running with scissors.

I was watching Storage wars.

I wanted to see more but this was it.

Tobacco's i have smoked update.

1 Hoots black Flake mid to strong nicotine Good taste **** finished

2 A small sample from Italy HH gave me mid nicotine Great taste *** finished

3 Peterson's Sunset breeze. mild nicotine Good taste *** finished

4 Borkum Riff Cherry Urinal cake. low nicotine No stars finished

5 Borkum Riff Bourbon Whiskey tongue bite low nicotine No Stars finished

6 Borkum Riff Vanilla Cavendish smokable if desprate Low nicotine No Stars finished

7 Mac Baren Plumcake never again tongue bite bad flavor No Stars finished

8 Erinmore Flake mid to strong nicotine ok taste *** finished

9 Gallagher's irish cake hard plug very strong nicotine strong flavor ***

10 Samuel Gawith Chocolate Flake mid to strong nicotine great flavor ***** finished

11 Peterson's 3P plug mid nicotine ok flavor ***

12 Wessex Gold Brick plug mid to strong nicotine pure tobacco taste ***

13 Rattray's Black Mallory mid nicotine nice flavor **** finished

14 Blakeney"s Best Latakia Flake strong nicotine strong flavor ****

15 MacBaren Honey & Chocolate mid to strong nicotine good flavor ****

16 CAO Eileen's Dream  2008 Mild Mild Mild ** finished

17 MacBaren 7 Seas 2010 ok taste mid nicotine *** finished

18 McClelland No 22 2008 Vintage Ok taste good nicotine ***

19 Villiger 1888 Mid-Day 2010 Ok taste mid nicotine ***

20 Mac Baren Roll cake spun cut Good taste strong nicotine ****

21 Mac Baren Stockton Good taste mid nicotine ****

This weeks 2nd tobacco

Villiger 1888 Mid-Day vintage 2010
Tastes better than you would think nicotine is mid strength.

I think that this tobacco has taught me that i like English blends best.

This weeks Tobacco

McClelland No 22 2008 Vintage

Rubbed out easy and burned well.

Nicely aged,

A fine smoking tobacco.

Good nicotine hit.

Flavor of pure tobacco nice.

Coarse broken flakes to rub out.

But the tin note is not good smells like tomato sauce [Ketchup] Huh ?

But it's not there when you smoke it ?  

And best of all take that "The Man"

This is my 18th different tobacco so far.

Stanwell Straight Grain - Selected Briar

This is a registration era Stanwell Straight Grain, also stamped Selected Briar. Is is a chimney (shape 95), with the bowl being just over 2" high and the entire pipe being just over 5.5" long. I got it from the same person who had the GBD WWII issue detailed earlier in the blog. I have in fact posted a few photo's of this one before, but this time I tried some more detailed processes for defining grain. Enjoy!

More Peterson's De Luxe 11s

Well, I need to dust the pipes more...but today's efforts were aimed at photographing grain in detail. I'm reasonably happy with the results, but there is still a long way to go.

Smoking the new unfinished pipe

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Well it still needs a lot of work but it smokes.
happy with the tobacco bowl a nice taper
The smoke hole enters at the bottom of the bowl nice.
The bit an old p lip fits well.
There are 1 or 2 rough spots but i have learnt a lot.
Hopefully the next 1 will be better.
I so need a better chuck.
Yo HH 1 almost down 49 to go Hahahaha.

Peterson's De Luxe 11s

Just a couple of teaser images, hoping to polish this over the weekend and to photograph it properly. You'll have to wait for the incredible birdseye :) Fresh from the rack.

Pipe progress

Drilling a pilot hole.

Think i will hand turn the inside of the bowl.
My Hobo chuck is working remarkably well.
Holding nice and tight.
Looks a bit scary.

Decided to work on the bowl first.
Roughed out the stem first just to get an idea of what it might look like..

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Arbor for Drill chuck

I used the chuck from the hand drill press.
Now i can drill on the lathe and it's also a variable speed polisher as it fits the head stock.

Stanwell de Luxe No. 86

Well, my polishing setup doesn't work with the carnauba - not enough heat produced. Still, at lower speeds I used it on the bit and was VERY impressed with the results. That reflection you can see is a screen door about 4 meters away from the pipe. Will keep working to get a setup that will actually melt the carnauba.

Pipe Spotting Donald Campbell speed king

Watching a doco  Donald Campbell speed king.